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If one takes into account the intense censorship Apple exerts on its iphone content, in theory it shouldnt be posible to do much more than My Little Pony etc..I personally feel very ambivalent about making anything that goes anywhere near an iphone for these reasons. Reading betwen the lines iphone has an increasingly (Christian) fundamentalist outlook on content which is arguably anathema to the personal freedoms, intellectual autonomy and responsibilities of artistic practice.
There's a couple of articles here about the ever tightening censorship Apple exerts:http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100225-25501.htmlhttp://www.dotcult.com/iphone-app-censorship-is-ridiculous

I've been using my iphone (3G) as an ebook reader for 2 years. My husband and I traveled in Europe for about a month and I read 5 novels with no regrets what so ever. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you adjust the screen color & text color etc. it becomes as "transparent" as any standard book. I read on it at home as well. We're traveling again this spring and I've got a guide book loaded in. Thus far the only app that seems usable for book art would be the Good Reader which works with pdf files. Will report back once I try re-creating one of my artist books on it. Have not run into censorship problems with any of the novels I've read on it -- and there was definitely potential for super moralists to object. I don't think novel content has been attacked (yet).

The exhibition presents two connected bodies of material: a survey of artists’ books by Australian painter, sculptor and bookmaker Robert Jacks (1942-2014), and an extensive selection of publications drawn from Jacks’ own collection, many of which were purchased from Printed Matter in the early years of the organization.

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